Daily Invocations: 6. Swami Krishnananda.

 

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Monday 12, May 2025, 10:30.

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Srimad Bhagavad Gita

Daily Invocations: 

2.The Satarudriya-6.

Swami Krishnananda

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18. 

"namo mantriṇe vāṇijāya kakṣāṇāṁ pataye namo

namo bhuvaṁtaye vārivaskṛtāyauṣadhīnāṁ pataye namo

nama uccairghoṣāyākrandayate pattīnāṁ pataye namo

namaḥ kṛtsnavītāya dhāvate satvanāṁ pataye namaḥ."

Prostration to the One who manifests Himself as the minister in a royal court, as the merchant in business, and as the ruler over all the plant kingdom; prostration to the Creator of the world, the Master of all wealth, the Lord over medicines; prostration to Him who thunders in battle and makes the enemy shriek in fear, and is the Commander of all forces; prostration to the All-enveloping One, the Fast in action, the Refuge of the self-surrendering devotees.

19.

"namaḥ sahamānāya nivyādhina āvyādhinīnāṁ pataye namo

namaḥ kakubhāya niṣaṅgiṇe stenānāṁ pataye namaḥ."

Prostration to the valiant Confronter of foes; the terrific Uprooter of the opposing forces, the Protector of the powers (of dharma) pressing from all sides; prostration to the Lord seated on the hump of the bull, armed with the sword, the Chief of (even) thieves (or stealer of everyone's heart).

Note: —The appellation 'Chief of thieves' is to indicate the supreme immanence and the non-exclusiveness of the Divine Being.

20.

namo niṣaṅgiṇa iṣudhimate taskarāṇāṁ pataye namo

namo vañcate parivañcate stāyūnāṁ pataye namo

namo nicerave paricarāyāraṇyānāṁ pataye namaḥ.

Prostration to the Chief of robbers, to Him who is armed with quiver and arrows; prostration to the deceiving, the tricky and elusive Lord of marauders; prostration to the ever-cunning Leader of the thieves lurking at home and those wandering in the streets and the forests.

Note: —The Lord is adored as the Chief of thieves, etc., in two senses. Firstly, He is the indwelling presence of even the thieves, and their lives are impossible without His existence in them as their essence. Secondly, He is also the jiva, which is the thief, apart from His being Isvara ranging beyond the realm of the former. Also, the Lord it is that sports as the high and low, the good and the bad, the virtuous and the debased, when looked at from the standpoint of the universe taken as a whole, a view which is hard for the jiva sunk in personalistic cognitions and perceptions but the right vision of those who are absorbed in Reality. Ethical concepts stand transfigured in the Absolute. These mantras of the Veda are to help the seeker in recognising God through the medium of all creation.

21.

"namaḥ sṛkāvibhyo jighāgṁsadbhyo muṣṇatāṁ pataye namo

namo'simadbhyo naktaṁcaradbhyaḥ prakṛntānāṁ pataye namo

nama uṣṇīṣiṇe giricarāya kuluñcānāṁ pataye namaḥ."

Prostration to the Chief of the self-protecting animals and of the retaliating thieves ever ready to strike people to death; prostration to the Chief of dacoits, armed with swords and prowling in the night for booty; prostration to the roving Chief with helmet and turban, wandering through the mountains, who steals away people 's belongings in houses and fields.

22.

nama iṣumadbhyo dhanvāvibhyaśca vo namo

nama ātanvānebhyaḥ pratidadhānebhyaśca vo namo

nama āyacchadbhyo visṛjadbhyaśca vo namo

namo'syadbhyo viddhyadbhyaśca vo namo namaḥ.

Prostration to Him who is in the forms of those that move about holding bows and using arrows; prostration to Him who is in those that string their bows and discharge the arrows; prostration to Him who is in those that stretch the bows and send arrows again; prostration to Him who is in those that shoot the arrows and make them hit the targets.

Note: —The great commentator Sayana makes a suggestive hint that the forms are all 'Rudras', which implies the startling truth that the contents of the world are all God Himself—not that He is merely present in them.

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